Now I know how General Robert E. Lee felt in 1864 when informed of the death of his calvary leader, Gen. Jeb Stuart. Lee responded that he had “lost the eyes of the army.” (The previous year, when informed of the death of Stonewall Jackson, Lee said that he had lost his right arm.) Well, […]
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Orange County Register: “Defining Freedom Down”
The Orange County Register ran my op-ed, “Defining Freedom Down.” The page does not have a link, so I am posting the piece here. The Future of Freedom Foundation today shotgunned out an op-ed of mine that is very similar to this article. Orange County Register, March 17, 2006 “Defining Freedom Down” by James Bovard […]
Bush Betrayal now available in Arabic in Beirut
I got a call today from a friend who told me that the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal is now in the stores in Beirut. The translation deal was signed by St. Martin’s Press last May with the Arabic Scientific Publishers in Lebanon. I have not seen the translated book – or even the cover […]
FFF uncorks my piece on the Federal Farming Takeover
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online my Freedom Daily article on FDR’s takeover of American agriculture. The piece is re-posted today at LewRockwell.com. Here’s an outtake: The history of agricultural policy is a history of endless political finagling, of bureaucracies that always lagged behind the pace of events, of policymakers’ appalling misperceptions that repeatedly […]
Albanian Backlash against the book begins
The Albanian Anti-Defamation League has launched its first attack on Attention Deficit Democracy. A woman who calls herself Kristina Albania – and who confesses that her nickname is “blerta” – angrily attacked the book yesterday in a “customer” (fat chance) review on Amazon. From the Amazon page for Attention Deficit Democracy – Title of […]
Another Brazilian Hit and a Portuguese language review
My piece on the absurd definitions of the “suspected terrorists,” published last month in the Los Angeles Times, was translated and published by Jornal O Estado de Sno Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers. It was posted online by a Brazilian business lobby here. The generous review essay published by Counterpunch was translated into Portuguese […]
Subversive Ideas Migrate to Brazil
My Newsday piece on mass ignorance vs. American democracy was translated into Portuguese and published in the third-largest newspaper in Brazil. The piece was reposted at this Brazilian blog. Perhaps Brazilians have more interest in ignorant Americans than do many Americans. I hope my article does not do anything to cause the average Brazilian to […]
Jim
Yep... federal judges and appeals courts have elo
R R Schoettker
That this grotesquely obscene practice wasn’t sh
Tennessee Budd
You forgot the lie of 1861. Some Americans, seeing